earful

• account
• admonishment
• admonition
• adumbration
• advice
• affliction
• ammo
• announcement
• apocalypse
• argument
• avalanche
• babble
• back-fence talk
• barrage
• bawling-out
• berating
• betrayal
• blame
• blather
• blether
• blitz
• blitzkrieg
• blow-by-blow
• bombardment
• break
• breeze
• broadcasting
• broadside
• bruit
• bulletin
• burst
• buzz
• calumny
• canard
• cannonade
• cannonball
• castigation
• cataclysm
• cataract
• censure
• chapter and verse
• chat
• chatter
• chewing-out
• chiding
• chitchat
• chronicle
• clothesline
• clue
• colloquy
• comeuppance
• comment
• communication
• conclave
• condemnation
• confabulation
• conference
• confidence
• consultation
• conversation
• correction
• counsel
• cry
• cue
• current
• data
• defamation
• deliberation
• deluge
• dialogue
• directive
• dirt
• dirty laundry
• dirty linen
• dirty wash
• disapproval
• discharge
• discovery
• dispatch
• display
• divination
• divulgement
• dope
• dossier
• dressing-down
• drumbeat
• drumfire
• encounter
• engulfment
• enlightenment
• epiphany
• epistle
• erudition
• excess
• exhibition
• exposition
• expostulation
• exposure
• eye-opener
• eyeball-to-eyeball
• fabrication
• falsehood
• fame
• fiction
• flash
• flood
• flood tide
• flurry
• flush
• foreshadowing
• fusillade
• glut
• going-over
• gossip
• gossipry
• grapevine
• gush
• hail
• hard time
• hash
• hearsay
• hoax
• huddle
• idle talk
• illumination
• info
• information
• injury
• innuendo
• inside story
• inspiration
• instruction
• intelligence
• interlocution
• interview
• intimation
• inundation
• invention
• kick in the teeth
• knowledge
• leak
• learning
• lecture
• lesson
• letter
• lie
• lightning bolt
• lore
• lowdown
• malicious talk
• manifestation
• material
• meddling
• meeting
• memo
• memorandum
• message
• missive
• murmur
• negotiation
• network
• news
• note
• notice
• notification
• notoriety
• objurgation
• oracle
• orientation
• ostracism
• outburst
• outflow
• outpouring
• overabundance
• overage
• overflow
• overkill
• overmuch
• oversupply
• palaver
• paper
• parlance
• parley
• prate
• prating
• prattle
• proclamation
• propaganda
• prophecy
• publication
• punishment
• put down
• rap
• rash
• rating
• rebuff
• refusal
• remonstrance
• report
• reprehension
• reproach
• reproof
• reproval
• repulse
• repute
• river
• row
• rumble
• rumor
• salvo
• scandal
• science
• scolding
• scoop
• score
• scuttlebutt
• seminar
• shower
• showing
• sign
• slander
• slap in the face
• small talk
• snub
• spate
• speech
• spiel
• storm
• story
• straight talk
• stream
• suggestion
• superabundance
• superfluity
• supposition
• surfeit
• surge
• surplus
• symposium
• tale
• talk
• talking-to
• tattle
• telling-off
• the latest
• tide
• tidings
• tip
• tittle-tattle
• tongue-lashing
• torrent
• uncovering
• unearthing
• unveiling
• upbraiding
• ventilation
• vision
• visit
• volley
• whisper
• whispering
• whispering campaign
• whole story
• wire
• wisdom
• word

• approval
• commendation
• compliment
• concealment
• cover
• dribble
• drip
• encouragement
• endorsement
• evidence
• exoneration
• fact
• flattery
• heedlessness
• hiding
• ignorance
• listening
• neglect
• praise
• proof
• quiet
• sanction
• secret
• silence
• trickle
• truth

• noun
  1. An angry reprimand, castigation or telling off.
  2. Intimate gossip.

• After the mishap, he received an earful from his disappointed supervisor.
• The teenager got an earful from their parents for coming home late.
• During the meeting, the manager gave the team an earful about the project's delays.
• The employee received an earful from the client for the service shortcomings.
• The teacher gave the chatty students an earful about the importance of focus in class.

objurgation

hail

salvo

talebearing

talk

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